SHIPPING DISPUTE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 42, 30 November 1935, Page 5

SHIPPING DISPUTE

INDICATION OF EXTENSION. THE WANGANELLA AFFECTED. FIVE VESSELS WITHOUT CREWS. United Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, November 29. Important developments to-day indicated an early extension of the shipping dispute. Another effort to obtain a crew for the Mangola failed. Afterwards the crew of the inter - State steamer Manoora, which is listed to sail to-morrow for Fremantle, gave 24 hours’ notice. Ten members of the crew of the Wanganella, which is due to sail for Auckland to-morrow, and one each of the freighters Duntroon and Macedon, also gave notice. The Wanganella has 250 .passengers. It is regarded as unlikely that any action will be taken to hold up ships at Melbourne until after the seamen’s meeting there next Tuesday. A message from Sydney on Tuesday stated that the seamen in Sydney and Melbourne had rejected the recent award made by Judge Dethridge in the Arbitration Court. The objections included the loss of 3d ail hour overtime, the failure of the court to provide a" differential rate for the rigging of gear for loading and unloading, and loss of “clocking” time for defeired sailing. The Sydney and Melbourne branches of the union decided to refuse work under the new award. This was taken to mean that working seamen would automatically be withdrawn from the vessels as they .reached their home port after December 1. The committee of management of the Sydney branch of the Seamen’s Union urged that no action should be taken until the result of a plebiscite on the acceptance of the award became known, but this proposal was rejected by a large majority.

ANOTHER STEAMER INVOLVED. NEWCASTLE BRANCH JOIN® IN. ALL WEEK-END! ARRIVALS. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Commonwealth Navigation Department will probably grant permission to the liner Strathnaver to carry inter-State passengers. This will involve a special dispensation under tne Navigation Act, which, does not allow oversea liners to compete with interstate passenger vessels, lhe Strathnaver will sail for London tins evening. The Union Company’s freighter Talune, which arrived from Newcastle yesterday, and which was to have sailed for • Hobg.it at midnight, is tied up, as members of the crew state that they would not offer for re-engage-ment until they had consulted their union. ' ' a The Newcastle branch of the Seamen’s Union decided not to work under the new Federal award. The “Sydney Morning-Herald says it is regarded as certain that the men will strike on every vessel that arrives at Sydney during the week-end.